Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Well it only took 25 years

My monday night campaign is set in the Viridistan, the city-state of the World Emperor. A big problem is that I can look on the map and find the entry in the text, I can't do the reverse. Look in the text and find the place on the map. You need both to do an effective city campaign.

I kinda of started it back in the 80's and now 25 years later I completed it. Should make things go much smoother monday nights.

Bat in the Attic Games

How to make a Sandbox

The Old School Renaissance

To me the Old School Renaissance is not about playing a particular set of rules in a particular way, the dungeon crawl. It is about going back to the roots of our hobby and seeing what we could do differently. What avenues were not explored because of the commercial and personal interests of the game designers of the time.

What are RPGs?

A game where the players play individual characters interacting with a setting with their actions adjudicated by a human referee.

Rules are an aide to help the referee adjudicate actions and to help the players interact with the setting.

Dice are used to inject uncertainty which make a tabletop RPG campaign more interesting than "Let's Pretend".

The only thing a player needs to do to roleplay a character is to act if he or she was really there in the setting in that situation.